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Grateful Dead Live at KMPX Radio Show on 1967-04-01

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1967-04-01 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

talk interspersed with the following studio records:
SWAN SILVERTONES - (Song title unannounced) [missing from circulation]
CHARLES MINGUS - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - Lord I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
RAY CHARLES - I Don't Need No Doctor
JAMES BROWN - It's A Man's Man's Man's World
JAMES BROWN - Ain't That A Groove
BOB DYLAN - Maggie's Farm
ENSEMBLE OF THE BULGARIAN REPUBLIC - The Moon Shines
CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET -Dream Weaver
(Station Ads - Avalon Ballroom)
JUNIOR WELLS - Ships On The Ocean
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI/AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCH. - Charles Ives: Symphony # 4 (2nd Movement)
IAN & SYLVIA - Jealous Lover
IAN & SYLVIA Four Rode By
SKIP JAMES - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
IKE & TINA TURNER - River Deep, Mountain High
LOU RAWLS - Trouble Down Here Below
ROLLING STONES - Gotta Get Away
OTIS REDDING - Day Tripper
GRATEFUL DEAD - Cold Rain And Snow
GRATEFUL DEAD - New, New Minglewood Blues

Notes

Note 1/20/2006: the files will not derive into MP3/Ogg's - there's something wrong with the original wave files preventing this, so this show cannot be streamed in the current condition. Sorry!

THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX (Special Radio Flashback Edition "The Phil 'n' Jerry Show" April 1967)

A long, long time ago -- before many of you were born -- there was a wondrous thing called "progressive" or "free-form" radio. These were the days when rock radio stations were programmed by people who actually knew and loved music, rather than the accountants and marketing analysts who now control the airwaves. During this time it was possible to hear, in a single program, music by artists as diverse as the Beatles, Ravi Shankar and Miles Davis, to name but a few, picked and played by DJs who spoke to, rather than at, their audience. One of the pioneering stations in this adventurous era of radio was KMPX-FM in San Francisco, which was instrumental in letting the world know about the explosion of great music in the Bay Area in the late 60s.

One fine April evening in 1967, the station's co-founder, the legendary Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, invited Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia to play guest DJ on his nightly KMPX show. Phil and Jerry discussed the Grateful Dead's then-brand-new debut album (they promised the next one would be much better!), as well as such arcane topics as a top-secret military project to develop a "sound gun" that could kill or maim everyone for miles around with super-low-frequencies. Best of all, they brought along some of their favorite records to play on the air. As you might expect, it was a most unpredictable batch of tunes indeed.

The following is a playlist from Phil and Jerry's guest DJ shift, as broadcast on KMPX-FM in San Francisco, sometime during the last week of April, 1967.

Addeddate: 2004-06-02 15:07:20

Discs: 2

Has_mp3: 1

Identifier: gd67-04-xx.prefm.vernon.9261.sbeok.shnf

Lineage: Pre-FM-MR > R > DAT > CDR > EAC (secure) > Cool Edit (remove gaps) > CD Wave (retrack) > mkwACT > SHN (seekable)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Shndiscs: 2

Source: Soundboard

Transferred by: Raoul Duke and Matt Vernon

Type: sound

Venue: KMPX Radio Show

Year: 1967

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Reviewer: Docwill121 - - July 4, 2022
Subject: Taking Mr Back

About this time our French teacher told us about KMPX & I learned you could built a wire clothes-hanger antenna cut to the exact length to pick up the station, which was 50 mi. north from my home in Los Gatos.

I hated Top-40's 2:30-min talk-over-the-intro format. The first song I dialed into with my new antenna was Bob Dylan's 22-min. 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'. Heaven.

Tom Donohue is still the greatest 'underground' DJ ever.

Reviewer: egeff - - July 13, 2020
Subject: Dank

Listening to this in July 2020, how cool, what a find! So fun to hear all these great selections, some completely new to me, others I knew the name of the artist but not not much else... really dug Charles Mingus... others well known but have not finished it yet. Fun to hear the chatter about the "new" dead LP... glad that the ensemble of the Bulgarian republic was short, interested but not an LP I will be seeking out, and neither will you! hahahaha ( I dont want to seem presumptuous) but it sounds like Yoko, not good Yoko but screaming Yoko...did not finish listening to all of this yet

Reviewer: GlamDunk - - April 13, 2020
Subject: This is pretty..

Awesome..

In fact, it's absolutely priceless..
Gotta Love Tom's Radio cadence and professionalism, he is the king of Camelot..
San Francisco 1967 FM, nuff 'caid..
(google his image, big boy, amazing)

Jerry is engaged, Phillip seems slurred,
but the music selection is Grade 'A'.

Thanks for yet another Beautron..Where else could anyone find this? Ever?

Reviewer: c-freedom - - April 2, 2020
Subject: Essential GD

Jerry & Phil bringing in their favorite tunes
and discussing the same with a noted local DJ.
and the year is 1967. *****
(just after the 1st LP was released.)
Golden Road
BIODTL
Rain And Snow
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Cream Puff War -Jerry (only original on the LP)
Morning Dew
New, New Minglewood Blues
Viola Lee Blues

Not sure you can get a more candid insight
into the future leanings of the band.

They left Weir at home
but he does contribute
a Maggie's Farm by Dylan
to the playlist.

It always interests me to see what creative people
have in their music and book collections

To the DJ's credit
he mainly let's Phil & Jerry
carry the evening

As far as the music
Charles Lloyd -has Dark Star jam written all over it

Jerry gives a nice tribute to seeing Otis live
and then play Otis covering 'Daytripper'

Reviewer: in_2_it_2 - - March 1, 2017
Subject: This is Golden Radio...Unlimited Devotion

A surprising play list put together by Jerry & Phil. Very soulful and introspective. Awesome and fun to listen to, especially the radio ads and the banter. Thanks for making this available.

Reviewer: njpg - - April 1, 2014
Subject: -

Very interesting, great and eclectic mixture of music.

Reviewer: The Only Deadhead in Madrid? - - February 5, 2013
Subject: "DJs" Phil and Jerry

I'm surprised nobody has ever commented on this. Basically it's Phil and Jerry commenting on a bunch of songs they like. You get their take on Otis Redding vs. James Brown and other curiosities. Not really a "must listen" but worth checking out.

Reviewer: newbyrnabch - - April 1, 2012
Subject: WoW

This is truly a treasure, while there are ton of incredible Dead shows to listen to this one is truly unique. The banter between Jerry and Phil along with them picking out who to listen to is AWSOME. We all have numerous musical influences but to hear those that touched these guys at such a pivitol time period is one of the truly golden moments that only the archive can provide. Thanx to all you wonderful Deadheads out there, and enjoy this recording.

Reviewer: Peacefuljon - - June 9, 2011
Subject: A classic moment in history

This is radio history.

Reviewer: IMPROVISATION - - July 12, 2010
Subject: this link/page audio is not working

this link is not working. I love this recording too. Anyone know what the problem is or where to report it. I tried all the new audio feature. I know its not me cause any other archive link works fine.

Reviewer: NYLifer - - April 1, 2010
Subject: Fantastic Interview Material !!!

So early! Jerry says' bobby used to sing "She Belongs To Me"? Where's that tape?

Reviewer: L. Rosley - - November 30, 2008
Subject: Great set list and interview

This is an eclectic set of good music, from soul, jazz, folk, blues, rock, and avante garde classical (Charles Ives, early 20th century). (Interesting how there is nothing from the SF scene of the time -- no Airplane, etc.) A good set to listen to on it's own, with interviews of Jerry and Phil talking about jazz, the Beatles, and various other things musical.

They also talk about the first Dead album which had just come out a few weeks previously. It was the number 1 album in San Francisco at the time, but they're pretty down on it. Phil calls it "a turd."

Reviewer: panamaguitar33 - - July 21, 2006
Subject: its grateful

its cool to listen to the sound is so listen to. Its a crazy thing to listen to the 60s dead then listen to the other years there sound progressed so much along the years

Reviewer: winterland rear floor,3rd row up - - May 21, 2006
Subject: swan silvertones

A bit of the first record can be heard at www.jive95.com in the "roots of ksan" section.

Reviewer: jmmybffttcor - - June 19, 2005
Subject: history lesson

this is a great piece of americana. i'm currently studying to be a radio dj, and i must say, this is all i ever need to study. not only is this a necessity for gd fans, but like mentioned above, this is a necessity for any fan of american music from blues to the dead. the quality of the download is worth the listen alone!

Reviewer: skwimite - - June 2, 2005
Subject: Cool Daddy-O

Aside from the novelty of these odd ducks talking music, the tunes are, for the most part, outstanding. On the strength of these samples, I just added the Junior Wells and the Charles Lloyd albums to my collection. Excellent stuff. This goes to show you what's missing in radio. Once upon a time, we could benefit from a knowledgable DJ lighting the way. Now we're all forced to blaze our own trails, and missing plenty along the way, no doubt. How do you rate something like this? I certainly got 5 stars of enjoyment out of it, and a little education too. For those too young to remember, it may sound pretty corny, but I love this.

Reviewer: Crazy - - May 18, 2005
Subject: Great

I thought this was a great collection builder. Would like to hear more of this

Reviewer: oxthom05 - - May 15, 2005
Subject: Jerry and Phil's favorites!

What a treat to hear what Jerry and Phil were listening to in '67! A true insight into what influenced the Grateful. Interesting how much respect they have for the Beatles, and to a lesser extent Motown (they took Dancin' as their own). I've been listening to The Boys for many a moon, and it's great to hear this bit of musical history.

Download and enjoy!

Reviewer: josewavo - - February 13, 2005
Subject: Time Slice

This is a little gem to add to anyone's collection. In those early, early days it's a treat to now see and hear how involved they were in the whole tapistry of American music, including the Charles Ives Syymphony #4. There is a difference between being musicians and being taken seriously as artists I think, and this view of Jerry's (and the bands') 'holistic' repertoire is very reflective of their desire to become unique and at the same time represent their musical influences. These artists, as represented here with the selections on the radio show, offer a broad spectrum of a constantly changing and endowed musical heritage.
Thanks for making this available.

Reviewer: jeffsetz - - June 30, 2004
Subject: vintage underground radio

Here's a real cool slice of the very early days of San Francisco FM freeform radio with the maestro, Tom Donahue.Tom would take the KMPX staff over to KSAN a year later after a bitter strike with station owners. Jerry and Phil come across as real intelligent guys here and the music they select for Tom to play is very good.

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